What happens when you haven't written anything in a long time? You start to get used to it and you don't think you will ever get back into the grove of things again. Then, instead of getting occasional floods of inspirations, thoughts become incomplete and you don't feel like you have enough material. I am guilty of all of this, and I'm sure many writer's get into these droughts as well. I will get ideas, but I constantly let them slip by because I haven't been motivated enough to capture them and deliver them home. I give myself so many excuses, but.. I really been ignoring the fact that writing is a part of me. I feel it and I know its there, and that's way I feel guilty when I don't write. I have been comfortable with not writing, but not satisfied. We all need to do that one thing in our lives that makes us feel good. We all have special talents and when we proudly display them, it gives us more self worth and gives us more of a sense of accomplishment in our. "I wrote that." "I designed that." "I built that." Even if I don't write, and I give myself the "I'm tired" excuse day after day, I know that writing is still a part of me and I'm still allowed to call myself a writer. It doesn't mean that I hate doing it. I doubt myself a lot and question my abilities, and I may get discouraged from even starting half of the time, but once I begin, it's relief- the "get off my ass and finally do something productive after watching TV for so long" feeling.

Don't think that just because you are not writing now, that there's something wrong with you. Writing isn't easy. Just thinking about it isn't easy. It's a whole lot of exercise and digging into our souls. It's exhausted. I don't blame anyone for not always running to find a piece of paper and pen.